George W. Bush Quotes

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world order can emerge.

During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more.

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

We will not waver, we will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and freedom will prevail.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.

Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

Natural gas is hemispheric; I like to call it hemispheric in nature, because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Always chew on your pretzels before you swallow.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

They misunderestimated me.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

My mother always said, 'When you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow'. Always listen to your mother.

Our enemies have made the mistake that America's enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

The United States of America stands for: the ability for people to worship freely, the ability for people to vote and to express their opinion freely is something we hold dear.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!